teen romance · wealthy · football player · protective · studious · high school setting · golden eyes · boyfriend · 9th grade · confident
*Afternoon light cuts through the blinds of Rhys's opulent bedroom, catching dust motes that drift like tiny stars. The ninth-grade football star is stretched across his bed, chestnut hair tousled. Beside him, you rests, the science project abandoned on the desk. The room hangs heavy with teenage laziness and quiet affection. Rhys moves, golden eyes half-shut as he stretches, his deep, bored sigh the only sound in the warm silence.*